Chapter 17: Forbearance
"Only those who eat at sea, whether they are fishermen or pirates, all bow down to me!"
- Barashi Bonn, Founding Monarch of the Neptune Islands
The deathly silence of the big house, which should have been bustling with many people, could not calm the mournful atmosphere even if the yellow and clear lights illuminated the corridors, halls, and even every window. The red carp asked the maid to light all the lights in the whole house, and countless candles were used as permanent lamps to pray for the wounded and mourn for the dead.
"How is he?" Jack walked into the convalescence room for the surviving men, where Sparrow sat and instructed several maids to wipe their foreheads with cold towels.
Loraine's doctor said that there was little hope of being saved, and the wound had been sutured for him, but several internal organs were injured and he had a high fever, and whether he could survive could only be left to fate. Sparrow stood up and saluted Jack.
"We'll get revenge. Jack said with a hard look at his half-dead man on the bed.
Sparrow shook his head, a sad look on the veteran's face, and the proud sturdy waist of the eternal night bowed down.
"Nope. Sparrow shook his head and looked at Jack with tears in his eyes: "Young master, we can't take revenge, this kid sobered up for a while while when he was healing, do you know what he said? That group actually said that if you just kill a few Northridge people and throw them at our doorstep to vent your anger, you can make a difference!" said bitterly, wiping away tears.
"Bang!" Jack slammed his fist on the table, anger, unwillingness, grievance, and the pain of his hand on the table made his nose sore, and tears rolled in his eyes.
"Young Master!" Sparrow hurriedly took Jack's arms and said, "You can't cry! You are now the backbone of the family! No matter what happens, you can't show your fragile side! The people are still there, you can't cry!" Sparry whispered as he looked at the maid who was still busy with the wounded soldiers.
"But!but!" Jack's face was torn to cry because he wanted to cry, and the characteristic distorted expression of the boy made people feel distressed, "But Sals, they, Sals!" Even though he tried to hold back, tears still unconsciously ran down his cheeks.
"Young master!" Sparrow hurriedly reached out and wiped Jack's eyes twice, his rough and dry hands instantly took away the moisture, and his eyes dried suddenly, and Jack didn't particularly want to cry. "Young master, listen to me, Sals will not die in vain, we are not the prince's opponent yet, you just need to study hard in the Rhine Academy, where you can meet many children of big people, and when you all grow up, you will have enough strength to help Sals avenge." Sals is dead, and he has exchanged his death for a temporary peace between us and the Prince, and we have to continue this dismount!"
Jack, with red eyes, withdrew from the room, the red carp stood in the corridor, Jack passed by the red carp with red eyes, the red carp silently followed, Jack walked very slowly, the bright moonlight and candles illuminated the whole courtyard as if it were daytime. Walking into the door of the hall on the first floor, there was a sleeping Teggs wiping his sword at the gate.
Seeing Jack coming, Teggs hurriedly put his sword back into the scabbard and got up. Looking at Jack's red eyes and expressionless expression, he looked at the red carp suspiciously, and the red carp frowned slightly, signaling him not to do much. So Tiger kept his head down until Jack and the red carp walked into the house, and then Tiger raised his head and sat back to continue looking at the moon, even if Jack didn't look at him the whole time, but he himself made himself feel a little more comfortable with this attitude.
From the lobby on the first floor to the second floor, there was also a reception room near the balcony on the second floor, where the more intimate meetings would take place, and Jack walked over to the round table and sat down. The red carp hurriedly stepped forward to ask the young master if he wanted to drink something, and to be honest, Jack's state made her a little panicked.
Jack glanced at the wine cabinet, "Get me a bottle of wine they brought from Northridge." Jack said.
The red carp hurriedly married a bottle from the wine cabinet, and the Northridge wine was called Beauvo wine, which means a fire in the body in winter. It is made mainly with hardy grains and potatoes, and it has a clear texture with no taste, sweetness or bitterness, and only a feeling like a flame in the mouth.
He poured a large glass of Beauvo, and his entire mouth and throat were burning like a fire, and he felt like tears were about to burst out again.
At the same time, a bolt of lightning lit up in the sky, and thunder followed, and the gale hung up violently, and all the candles immediately dimmed, and many of them were directly blown out by this gale.
Jack walked up to the balcony with his hands behind his back, the rain began to fall, the moon that could be seen just now was no longer visible, the rainy night was dark, through the faint light Jack saw that Sparrow walked out of the wounded man's room with his hands behind his back, and walked straight back to his room through the rain, the lights in the wounded room were also extinguished, and the two maids withdrew.
"Arrange someone tomorrow. Jack's voice was hoarse as if burned by the spirits.
The rain was so heavy that the red carp had to take a few steps forward to get to Jack to hear what Jack was saying.
"Tomorrow I will arrange for someone to prepare a rich gift to take my letter to the Prince's Palace. Jack said.
The red carp frowned and nodded, she didn't expect to receive such an order, this time she suddenly felt how difficult it was for the teenager in front of her, he could give such a mature and steady order at the age of a teenager, but the person who looked at it in an anxious state was really heartbroken.
After Jack finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the bedroom, his bedroom was on the third floor, and it had already been cleaned up. A glass of liquor is not something that this overwhelmed teenager can afford. The dryness of Jack's throat that Jack already felt was completely disproportionate to the heart that was about to explode, the hot body and the drowsy spirit, but he liked this feeling very much, it turned out that this was the feeling of being drunk, and it was really not very comfortable, but in this case, the feeling of the body could make him forget the unhappiness in his heart, didn't it.
The red carp helped Jack to the bed, took off his coat for Jack, his slender arm was grabbed by the hot little hand, in fact, it was not small, looking at the pity of the little Zhengtai with a red face on the bed, when he said the three words not to go, who could refuse.
The red carp lying down by Jack felt like she blushed for the first time, and she hadn't had this hot feeling of blushing for many years, even though she was just in her early twenties.
The lying red carp grabbed Jack's head out of some kind of woman's natural maternal instinct, and when Jack's little face, which was hot from drinking, was pressed against the red carp's chest, the red carp only felt a slight tremor on his body. However, she had just clamped her legs and felt a wet liquid flowing out, and even hotter than Jack's face was the long-suppressed tears that flowed from her tears. Both hands couldn't help but clench tighter again.